Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.

Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery.

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.

Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the presence of a living principle. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.

There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it temporarily gains its object.